Post by WullieFort on Apr 7, 2017 11:31:27 GMT
Let me digress right away.
Smiley Hoffman is NOT related to Charley
Smiley has a brother called Luckie . WTF are mum and dad called?
The Hoffman's round of 65 came out of left field, My guess is that he is not on anybody's "possible winner" list. We'll see
Although it was great to see the leaderboard dominated by Brits/Europeans during the day, more than one of them came to grief at the 18th. Both Fitzpatrick and Pieters had double bogies there.
I watched Jordan Spieth have his 9 at the 15th. He attempted to play the hole as a 3-shotter but his approach spun back of the green at such a rate that it was never going to hang up on the bank. His next must have been thinned, so far over the green did it fly. Then worried about chipping too strongly back and going into the water again, he left his chip way short of the hole with a very fast snaky putt to follow, etc., etc.,etc. To his credit he birdied two of the last 3 to stay in a reasonable position at +3
Westy is in the kind of position where a player of his ability and experience would hope to be at -2. He ripped the arse out of the back 9 with 5 successive birdies from the 13th. Given his reputation as a "misputter" that was some performance. Can he keep it up ?
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I watched Rory's early holes and he was showing nothing. He got to +3 and I expected an 80something from him but he recovered to level par. Maybe that will prove the springboard for him to have a great weekend.
Also well in it are Rose, Casey, Garcia, Sullivan, Kjeldsen, Lowry and defending champion Willett, who dropped 3 shots in his first 2 holes but got himself back to +1
Good first round with a lot of wind. All to play for or will Charley blow everybody away ?
Smiley Hoffman is NOT related to Charley
Smiley has a brother called Luckie . WTF are mum and dad called?
The Hoffman's round of 65 came out of left field, My guess is that he is not on anybody's "possible winner" list. We'll see
Although it was great to see the leaderboard dominated by Brits/Europeans during the day, more than one of them came to grief at the 18th. Both Fitzpatrick and Pieters had double bogies there.
I watched Jordan Spieth have his 9 at the 15th. He attempted to play the hole as a 3-shotter but his approach spun back of the green at such a rate that it was never going to hang up on the bank. His next must have been thinned, so far over the green did it fly. Then worried about chipping too strongly back and going into the water again, he left his chip way short of the hole with a very fast snaky putt to follow, etc., etc.,etc. To his credit he birdied two of the last 3 to stay in a reasonable position at +3
Westy is in the kind of position where a player of his ability and experience would hope to be at -2. He ripped the arse out of the back 9 with 5 successive birdies from the 13th. Given his reputation as a "misputter" that was some performance. Can he keep it up ?
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I watched Rory's early holes and he was showing nothing. He got to +3 and I expected an 80something from him but he recovered to level par. Maybe that will prove the springboard for him to have a great weekend.
Also well in it are Rose, Casey, Garcia, Sullivan, Kjeldsen, Lowry and defending champion Willett, who dropped 3 shots in his first 2 holes but got himself back to +1
Good first round with a lot of wind. All to play for or will Charley blow everybody away ?
